Critics called the movement patronizing and repressive, but it is having something of a resurgence By J.S. Marcus | The Wall Street Journal This article originally appeared here > While French Impressionists were creating their masterpieces in the 1870s and ’80s, the glory often went elsewhere-to artists known as Orientalists, who worked in their Paris… Read More
New Orleans, LA- Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announced today the appointment of Katie Pfohl as the new Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art who will begin her work at NOMA June 15. “Katie has distinguished herself as an accomplished curator and scholar. Her… Read More
By Karen Dalton-Beninato | Huffington Post This article originally appeared here International Jazz Day was celebrated, appropriately enough, in the city where jazz was born on the 4th day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015. From the steps of the New Orleans Museum of Art, musicians Terence Blanchard and Poncho Sanchez led… Read More
By Doug McCash, nola.com “What is a photograph?” an exhibit tracing the history of photo techniques from 1840 onward opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art April 20 and continues through August 19. The photographs were selected mostly from NOMA’s collection by photo curator Russell Lord. NOMA describes the scope of the show like… Read More
By Karen Celestan | The Advocate A huge gilded mirror at the entrance of “Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations” brings visitors face-to-face with themselves – an apt introduction to the revelations to come at the new exhibit housed at the Contemporary Art Center through June 16. “I wanted people to think about how they… Read More